Chapter — Vermeersch, Questions on Justice
Chapter I: On Socialism
Aristotle, Politicorum liber secundus [Book Two of the Politics]; St. Thomas, Commentaria in libros Politicorum [Commentaries on the Books of the Politics]; Pöhlmann, Geschichte des antiken Communismus und Socialismus [History of Ancient Communism and Socialism]; Thonissen, Le Socialisme dans le passé [Socialism in the Past], Le Socialisme et ses promesses [Socialism and Its Promises]; P. Janet, Les origines du Socialisme contemporain [The Origins of Contemporary Socialism]; Cathrein, Der Socialismus [Socialism], Das Privatgrundeigenthum und seine Gegner [Private Landownership and Its Opponents];1 P. Leroy-Beaulieu, Le Collectivisme, examen critique du nouveau Socialisme [Collectivism: A Critical Examination of the New Socialism]; Pachtler, Die Ziele der Socialdemokratie und die liberalen Ideen [The Aims of Social Democracy and the Liberal Ideas];2 Castelein, Le Socialisme et le Droit de Propriété [Socialism and the Right of Property]; Capart, La Propriété individuelle et le Collectivisme [Individual Property and Collectivism]; Antoine, Cours d’économie sociale [Course of Social Economy], chaps. IX and XVI; H. Pesch, Liberalismus, Socialismus und Christliche Gesellschaftsordnung [Liberalism, Socialism, and the Christian Social Order]; Biederlack, Die sociale Frage [The Social Question], chap. 3; Kerby, Le Socialisme aux États-Unis [Socialism in the United States]; P. Verhaegen, Socialistes anglais [English Socialists]; Holaind, Le Socialisme américain [American Socialism];3 Maisonabe, La Doctrine Socialiste [The Socialist Doctrine]; E. de Laveleye, Le Socialisme contemporain [Contemporary Socialism]; Van Overbergh, Les caractères généraux du Socialisme scientifique d’après le manifeste communiste [The General Characteristics of Scientific Socialism According to the Communist Manifesto]; Schaeffle, Quintessenz des Socialismus [The Quintessence of Socialism];4 Anton Menger, Le droit au produit intégral du travail, étude historique [The Right to the Entire Product of Labor: A Historical Study];5 G. d’Eichthal, Socialisme, Communisme et Collectivisme [Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism]; (Anonymous), Réfutation du socialisme, published by the Union Nivelloise [Refutation of Socialism, published by the Nivelles Union].
1 From the pamphlets concerning the social question published by writers for the periodical Stimmen aus Maria-Laach [Voices from Maria Laach]. They were rendered into French by D. Fritsch.
2 From the same series of pamphlets.
3 We shall cite the French edition, prepared by D. Buron.
4 That pamphlet was taken from the larger work Bau und Leben des sozialen Körpers [Structure and Life of the Social Body], and was rendered into French by the socialist B. Malon.
5 That celebrated work of the Viennese professor was rendered into French by A. Bonnet. We shall cite the French edition, which has a preface prepared by Ch. André.
Professor Schaeffle’s work already greatly favors the economic tenets of collectivism. Among the very doctors of present-day socialism may be mentioned: K. Marx and F. Engels, Manifeste du Parti Communiste [Manifesto of the Communist Party];6 K. Marx, Das Kapital [Capital];7 Lasalle, Kapital und Arbeit [Capital and Labor];8 B. Malon, Précis de Socialisme [Summary of Socialism], Le Socialisme intégral [Integral Socialism]; Destrée and Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique [Socialism in Belgium]; Bernstein (among the supporters of moderated Socialism), Die Voraussetzungen des Sozialismus und die Aufgaben der Sozialdemokratie [The Preconditions of Socialism and the Tasks of Social Democracy]; H. George (the author of agrarian socialism), Progress and Poverty, La condition des ouvriers, lettre au Pape Léon XIII [The Condition of the Workers: A Letter to Pope Leo XIII];9 Jean Jaurès, Études socialistes [Socialist Studies]. In addition, the pamphlets which relate the deliberations customarily held among socialists must be consulted. Several books by Rev. D. Winterer can be referred to this class, for example, Le Socialisme international [International Socialism].
6 It first appeared in German.
7 There exists a French translation of the first volume of this work, which surpasses the German edition in clarity, or rather in a lesser obscurity of style.
8 B. Malon also rendered this work into French.
9 We shall use the French edition.